A Petri net approach to support resource assignment in project management

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 564-574

  Chen, Yen Liang ^a   Hsu, Ping Yu ^a   Chang, Yuan Bin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Object composition Petri net (OCPN); Petri nets; Project management; Resource assignment; Resource sharing

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

OBJECT COMPOSITION PETRI NET; RESOURCE ASSIGNMENT; RESOURCE SHARING;

PETRI NETS;

EID: 43249109612     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2008.918632     Document Type: Article

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